A Student Used a Nonequivalent Control Group Design to Examine

question 53

Multiple Choice

A student used a nonequivalent control group design to examine the effectiveness of a computer module the library uses to introduce first year students to the library's resources.Which threat to internal validity could she potentially rule out by examining the pretest scores for both groups?

• A)a maturation threat
• B)a regression threat
• C)a selection threat
• D)an instrumentation threat

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